Creation Moment 6/9/2025 - Starting in 1865

So God created man in His own image... Genesis 1:27

"In 1865, the city of Melbourne witnessed the first public exhibition of gorillas (albeit as taxidermy specimens) in Australia. This

groundbreaking display was organized by the esteemed Irish-Australian naturalist Professor Sir Frederick McCoy (1817–1899). He was the foremost figure in Australasia’s scientific community, founding and directing the Melbourne Museum of Natural History and Geology.
The captivated public flocked to the museum, eager to glimpse the three mounted gorilla specimens. They were fascinated by these remarkable creatures from Africa.
McCoy sought to highlight the profound anatomical and biological differences between apes and humans. He believed that these distinctions were crucial evidence against the idea that humans shared a common ancestry with apes. McCoy viewed evolution as fundamentally flawed. To him, the exhibit was more than just an attraction; it was intended to serve as a counter-narrative to the growing acceptance of evolution. Darwin had published Origin of Species just six years earlier.
McCoy wrote, “… it is well for the inhabitants of a country so remote … to see how infinitely remote the creature is from humanity, and how monstrously writers have exaggerated the points of resemblance … .”
McCoy considered it his scientific and public duty to use gorilla

specimens to counter the rising acceptance of evolution in scientific circles. At that time, there were debates and discussions between British professors Richard Owen (an antievolutionist) and evolutionist Thomas Huxley (‘Darwin’s bulldog’). One topic of debate between them was whether the gorilla’s skeletal structure created an “anatomical or structural passage between man and the lower animals.” McCoy challenged

"… not only the anatomists and general zoologists, but even those interested in the theological question of man’s place in nature … [to] satisfy themselves of the impassable gulf in structural sequence which really separates the greatest of the man-like apes from man."

McCoy was vehemently opposed Darwin’s biological evolution, perceiving it as a threat to both faith and human distinctiveness, and believed in divine creation of individual species." 

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